Yesterday, I purchased my last copy of the Weekly World News.
Not just my last copy: the last copy. The venerable tabloid is ceasing production. It is a sad, sad day.
When I was in high school, rags like the National Enquirer (”Enquiring minds want to know!”) and the Star (”Reach for the colorful, [...]
Life Towards God – The Preacher’s Wife’s husband.
The Sweet Dropper – My friend Phillip Palmertree, who is the Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Kosciusko, Mississippi (land of Oprah).
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This was just on the news:
A Shreveport woman was arrested today after her child, a first-grader, brought a rock of crack to show and tell at school and proceeded to tell the teacher and the class what it was, how it is made, and how to smoke it.
Read about it here.
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B.J. sent this E-mail out the other day:
“The Lincoln Parish Library (my employeer) is in danger of losing 1/3 of our building to the Lincoln Parish Police Jury and the Convention and Visitors’ Bureau. The LPPJ and CVB want to use this unfinished space for a convention center. The library would like to use this [...]
OK, a little update, since a lot of you have asked what’s been going on with the house.
The owner of the house we’re renting (from whom we thought we were buying the house last year) showed up and was the only one to bid on the house last week. So he has, in essence, [...]
See, if I’d put “I’m so excited,” you’d have thought I was quoting the Pointer Sisters’ hit song from 1984, which I definitely am not. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.)
But I am so excited. Excited that my friend Laurel Massé is blogging! I’ve mentioned her web site on this blog [...]
Well, here it is. A big HT to the SmockLady for doing all the code stuff to get this thing rolling.
I hope (notice I did not say “hopefully”–oy) that by switching to my own domain, many of you will be encouraged to post who were put off by the whole Xanga thing: having [...]
Many of you will not be surprised by this news. As a matter of fact, those of you who know me well are probably surprised I have not done so much sooner. It has been an incredible journey so far, but I know that I am headed for a better place. I [...]
. . . of our house just keeps, er, going on. Another meeting with the real estate agent yesterday. She met with the other agent yesterday afternoon. We should hear back from them in a couple of days. Meanwhile, we did sell our house here in Hattiesburg and are now renting [...]